Well, that's quite a cold and heartless answer. So would you say that to the people who are starving in certain countries because some dictator won't stop stealing their wealth? This seems like a very inexperienced reply...
for all you know I could of had it worse than those people starving, not everyone's life is colorful. I'm very aware of my reply, reason I even replied is b/c I can tell you my point of view from 'my experience'
It's reality, when was the last time that 'Hope' got you anywhere? What would I say? I would just help them, DO something about it than just sit around 'hoping' their situation gets better.
Really? inexperienced? What do you know about me?
Hoping, crying, dwelling, praying on the bad things, on the things that cause you any type of pain 'DOES NOT' help you in any way. Perhaps for a while but it wont pull you out from that situation unless you "DO SOMETHING" about it.
The day saying 'I hope' or 'feeling hope' fixes any problem, tell me.
Well, for one, I've prayed about certain things and had said prayers answered. So yeah, hope does a lot. A large part of it though gives you the comfort you need to actually stand up and do something. I've often wondered why those people who are starving didn't simply do something, then I realized that in their situation, doing something would only get them killed.
So wouldn't it be better to choose how you die then? Instead of standing up and fighting without a chance in hell, they should just hang themselves. However, they also happen to have hope. They're not going to off themselves just yet because their children or their children's children might just have their prayers answered.
That's hope.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't try, that's not my point. What I am saying is that hope gives one the will to try and not just give up.
Well, I can say that prayer helped me. The situation I was in could only have been fixed by divine power. I'm not doing that great right now, but an opportunity was opened due to the change in circumstances. I'm trying my best to take full advantage of that.
I try to stay unbiased, but I do have to take a side. I could probably argue the other way easily enough, but that wouldn't mean that I believed it.
This seems to be what people are saying. However, what I'm saying is that faith gives one hope. Sure you may have hope without faith, but hope with faith has a different meaning entirely. Right now my family, that includes me because I'm to inheret this, is about a million dollars in debt. Now, is there anything anyone can do about it? No, we just have to keep working away, and I'll be playing with my grandkids by the time that debt goes away. However, I have hope that my Creator can simply make it go away with little effort. He could do something that gives us the means to wipe it away entirely.
Without a Creator, one could maybe hope to win the lottery or something, but in this particular case, there really isn't another way out...except through divine power. So I have the hope that one day that debt will vanish somehow. If He wanted to, He could literally change things so that it was completely forgotten and remove all records that it ever happened. Even make the people who know about it forget entirely. We could send a check in one day, and they could simply send it back not knowing what it was for.
Hope without faith is rather...well...hopeless. xd